The Summerfords: 10/1/11

Monday, October 31, 2011

Pumpkin Carving...

We spent the afternoon carving pumpkins....

Owen liked scraping the top of the pumpkin, but...

....wanted nothing to do with the guts!

Owen was really excited about the Cars pumpkin carving kit and decided to put Mater on his pumpkin...

He liked helping but the process took a little too long....so mommy and daddy did most of the carving!

Mater!

Ava was too little to be a part of the pumpkin carving, so we had a pumpkin activity just for her! We didn't want her to feel left out of all the pumpkin fun...

Proud of his pumpkin...

Owen's favorite part...

Thursday, October 27, 2011

It's hard to believe that we've had her with us for the past 4 weeks when her due date was this Tuesday! She has changed so much in such a short time and we are so grateful for all her progress! We're lovin' our family of four and seeing how much Owen already loves his baby sister!

A little comparison....

Owen Ava

The things you're doing now:

You weigh 6 lbs 11 oz.

You're wearing newborn diapers (pampers swaddlers) which are still too big.

You're wearing mostly premie clothes, but not for too much longer.

You're not on any kind of schedule!

You like to "snack", so you typically like to eat every 2 hours. If you eat well, you'll go about 3 hours before eating again.

You're still only breastfeeding! We've tried a bottle but you can't seem to keep it down. We're going to get you a different/slower nipple and try again.

You have started spitting up a couple of times after almost every feed. Sometimes it even comes out of your nose! Owen is always on spit up alert and runs to get your burp cloth (but has no part of actually cleaning it up!)

You sleep great during the day but not so much at night. We've moved you from the pack-n-play to the rock-n-play sleeper and you're sleeping about 2 hours at a time.

In the last couple of days, you've started being awake more.

You really like bath time and getting you're hair washed is your favorite.

You're a pretty happy baby....you typically only cry when you're hungry.

You are a really loud baby. You are constantly grunting and squeaking...which wakes your daddy up at night!

You're starting to get a little spoiled! You want to be held most of the time...but we love all the snuggling!

You've smiled a few times while you were awake but smile ALL the time when you're sleeping.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Pumpkins....

Our annual trip to the pumpkin patch....

We finally got ready and out of the house around 11:45 (at least an hour later than we had hoped), but we were all dressed and ready for some fun at the pumpkin patch!

We picked up Beema and we were on our way! THEN, I googled directions (just to make sure we remembered correctly) only to find out that it didn't open til 1:00! Ha! All that rushing around for nothing! We decided to head that direction anyway and just stop along the way...

Family pic...

We ended up stopping at Ranalli Farms with the intentions of buying a few pumpkins before heading to the Dickey Farms pumpkin patch. Little did we know....Ranalli Farms had a pumpkin patch of their own!

It was small, shaded, and had cut-outs, which Owen loves! We ended up spending a lot of time there and took a ton of pictures...imagine that!

my sweet little boy....I just love him to pieces!!

We ran, and played, and ran some more!

Throwing hay at mommy...

Getting a good family pic (of all 4 of us) is quite the chore....

Lovin' on Miss Ava Kate....

It was hard to get pictures of Ava with all the pumpkins....but we attempted!

Daddy's little girl...

After we picked out a few pumpkins, we loaded up and headed to the Dickey Farms pumpkin patch. This was our third annual trip to this pumpkin patch, but it's was definitely the hottest!!

Owen and Josh choosing the best pumpkins...